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Francisco “Frank” Symphorien-SaavedraBoard Certified Expert. "Frank" Symphorien-Saavedra’s practice is focused on high stakes immigration and nationality law. Board certified in immigration and nationality law, a distinction limited to less than 8% of all Florida lawyers, Mr. Symphorien-Saavedra is an expert who is AV rated “Preeminent” by Martindale-Hubbell and has been designated a Rising Star by Super Lawyers magazine. Mr. Symphorien-Saavedra has also been a member of The National Advocates; Top 100 and The National Advocates: Top 40 under 40. As of May 2021, Mr. Symphorien-Saavedra is the only board certified immigration expert within the State of Florida who is a Venezuelan native as of October 2022.. Mr. Symphorien-Saavedra’s unique practice focuses on removal defense, federal court litigation, and extraordinary ability visas or national interest waivers. He also handles all other aspects of U.S. Immigration and Nationality Law, including family immigration, asylum and U.S. Citizenship claims. The tenacity which drives Mr. Symphorien-Saavedra’s practice has led him to successfully brief and win cases before administrative and Circuit appellate courts to secure successes for his clients.. A native of Venezuela, Mr. Symphorien-Saavedra immigrated to the United States when he was 11 years old. His father worked 24-hour shifts as a taxi driver in New York City in order to bring his wife and children to the United States. Mr. Symphorien-Saavedra attended West Orange High School in Winter Garden, Florida, where he participated in the law magnet program and won a mock appellate brief competition. His promising young career was evident when he presented mock oral arguments before the Florida Supreme Court at 16 years of age. Thereafter, Mr. Symphorien-Saavedra attended The Florida State University College of Law after graduating with high honors from the University of South Florida. Following a clerkship at the Orlando Immigration Court, his personal experiences and education led him to settle early and passionately on the field of immigration law. Thirteen years later, immigration continues to be Mr. Symphorien’s exclusive focus in his practice of law.. Mr. Symphorien-Saavedra cherishes his Latin heritage and is deeply devoted to this land of opportunity and freedom, which he calls home. He empathizes with the plight of other immigrants, immigrant families, and is passionate about providing opportunities for talented and driven professionals to contribute to the fabric of this great country. Mr. Symphorien-Saavedra particularly values opportunities to help thriving businesses collaborate with talented professionals in order to add to the strength and ingenuity of this country.. Currently, Mr. Symphorien-Saavedra serves on the Florida Bar Immigration and Nationality Law Certification Committee and will serve Chair during the 2022-2023 term. Previously, he served in committee leadership roles for the Orange County Bar Association, the American Immigration Lawyer’s Association-Central Florida Chapter, and the Hispanic Bar Association of Central Florida. He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and he regularly provides commentary on Univision, and various local media outlets including Unimas and News13. He is a regular speaker at national and local conferences that equip immigration lawyers and his opinions and analysis on the subject of extraordinary ability visas and federal court litigation have been published in professional journals.. Mr. Symphorien-Saavedra is fluent in Spanish and English and continues to strive to learn Portuguese. He is married to Litty Symphorien, an educator, and they are parents to three young children ages 13, 9 and 3. He is an active member of Horizon West Church. On a leisurely day off, you’ll find him with his immediate and extended family grilling for a hungry crowd.

Attorney Manzanero's practice is limited to immigration and nationality law. She currently manages a case portfolio of family-based immigration, including inadmissibility waivers and consular processing; citizenship and naturalization; humanitarian relief, including asylum, VAWA petitions, U Nonimmigrant status applications; and deportation litigation. Manzanero represents clients before U.S. Immigration Courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Department of Homeland Security agencies. Manzanero is admitted to practice before all Florida State Courts, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. She is fluent in Spanish and conversational in Russian. Attorney Manzanero graduated from the New College of Florida, the Honors College of Florida with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. Upon graduation, Manzanero was awarded the prestigious Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Junior Fellowship. While conducting U.S. foreign policy analysis in Washington, D.C., she co-authored and contributed to several publications.. Attorney Manzanero received her Juris Doctor with a Certificate of Concentration in International Law from Stetson University College of Law. While at Stetson, she served as a law intern in the U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida; the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection; and the Immigration Unit at Gulfcoast Legal Services. Manzanero also worked as Research Assistant to Professor of Law, Luz E. Nagle, a renowned international law scholar and former Colombian judge, exploring, inter alia, the rise and expansion of transnational criminal organizations in Mexico and Central America, and human trafficking.

David Vedder is the founding attorney at David F. Vedder, P.A. He has practiced immigration law since 1978, handling more than 12,000 cases through the course of his career. As a frequent speaker and presenter at conferences and panels, Attorney Vedder is Board Certified in Immigration and Nationality Law by the Florida Bar, and he is routinely recognized for his work by the American Immigration Lawyers Association, Martindale-Hubbell, Law Politics, and other organizations. His practice areas currently include family-based immigration, employment- and investment-based immigration, consular processing, citizenship, employer sanctions, deportation defense, asylum, administrative appeals, and other forms of immigration litigation.

Dedicated specialist in immigration and nationality law, with experience in family petitions, adjustment of status, removal (deportation), employment petitions, non-immigrant visas, work visas, waivers, consular processing, asylum, humanitarian parole and naturalization. Our firm is available to meet the needs of families, businesses and individuals seeking to navigate the complexities of the American immigration system. You will always speak directly with an attorney. We take pride in our personalized and creative approach to assisting with every case, whether it is seemingly straight forward or tryingly complex. Our attorneys have worked with clients from from over sixty-five different nations. We speak English, Spanish, Portuguese and German.

I have been specializing in employment-based immigration law for 40 years. My business clients range from small startups to global corporations seeking to employ foreign talent here in the United States. I prepare nonimmigrant visa petitions, labor certifications, and green card applications for skilled workers, investors, entrepreneurs, multinational executives, key managers, and individuals of extraordinary ability. I also prepare family-based immigration petitions, including fiancé visas, naturalization applications, and green cards for relatives of U.S. citizens and permanent residents.

FIAP offers the very highest level of legal services with a laser-sharp focus on success in your case. Attorney Laura Murray-Tjan has a history of winning reversals of fortune where other attorneys failed--from persuading an Immigration Judge to find that a client is a U.S. citizen a year after ordering his deportation, to convincing a federal appellate court to reverse its denial of an appeal so that a client could keep his green card, to convincing the Board of Immigration Appeals to reopen cases involving asylum, citizenship, and criminal issues. Bring your citizenship cases, appeals, waivers, and criminal-immigration cases to FIAP for incisive analysis and exceptionally zealous representation.

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At Del Olmo Law we specialized in US immigration law and provide services in Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and French.. Attorney Julio Cortes del Olmo is a Boston immigration attorney and the principal immigration attorney at Del Olmo Law. Attorney del Olmo is a Naturalized U.S. Citizen who earned a Masters in Law from Boston College Law School. A native Spanish speaker, he also holds a dual degree in Law and Business Administration from Carlos III University in Madrid, Spain.. Attorney Del Olmo gained extensive international experience working for over 5 years as a Senior Legal Advisor for the European Commission in Spain. He was also a law clerk to the Honorable William G. Young, one of the most respected Federal Judges at the Boston Federal Court in Massachusetts. Only a small number of attorneys each year are accepted to such a prestigious position.. After his clerkship, Attorney Del Olmo started practising immigration law as Of Counsel to the Law Office of Erinna D. Brodsky, where he acquired experience working in a range of complex family, naturalization and business immigration cases. Attorney Del Olmo is fully committed to offering Pro Bono legal representation to deserving individuals. He currently provides legal services and support to several public legal services organizations, including the PAIR Project, KIND and Immigration Equality.. Attorney Del Olmo is a member of the Massachusetts State and Federal Bar, an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), and since 2014, serves as one of the AILA New Members Division Liaisons.

I am a first generation American of Cuban and Lebanese heritage. Spanish is my first language. I am a "fix it" lawyer. I have many wins on cases previously denied. Let my more than 30 years of immigration law experience work for you. We can discuss the best options and decide if it makes sense to do something or walk away. My motto is, "If I can't help you, I won't take your case."

Attorney Christopher M. Casazza is a co-founder of Palladino, Isbell & Casazza LLC.. Prior to co-founding Palladino, Isbell & Casazza LLC, he was a partner at a prominent Center City Philadelphia Immigration Law Firm from 2019-2020, and he was employed as a senior attorney at a boutique immigration firm in suburban Philadelphia, PA where he worked from 2009-2019.. A persuasive and successful immigration lawyer, Christopher (“Chris”) is well respected by colleagues, clients, and courts alike. Chris has dedicated his legal career to all aspects of immigration law including removal (deportation) defense, appeals, Writs of Mandamus (WOMs), federal litigation, the immigration consequences of criminal convictions, asylum/refugee law, U-Visas, family-based petitions/waivers, and employment-based immigration.. Chris’s success as an immigration attorney is due to the fact that he enjoys his work and believes in what he fights for. He is energized by difficult cases and strives to find favorable solutions to complex matters. As a litigator, Chris has been extremely successful defending individuals and families from removal (deportation), on appeal before the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), and in Federal District and Circuit Court, including Oral Argument before the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.. Chris’s passion and dedication to immigration law has been recognized by both the media and his clients. In 2017, Chris was honored as one of the “16 young minds shaping Philly’s legal landscape” by Billy Penn news. Chris has been featured as an immigration expert by multiple news outlets, including. As a client testimonial puts it, “Chris is a great guy full of passion and absolute dedication to his job.”. Chris is also dedicated to helping other attorneys and professionals effectively represent their immigrant clients; he has been a featured speaker and lecturer on numerous immigration law topics, including Representing Individuals with Final Orders of Removal (AILA Philadelphia Chapter 2018 CLE), Immigration Law Issues (2018 SWAN Statewide Winter Conference), Immigration Law Under the New Administration” (2017 Chester County Bar Association), Administrative and Judicial Review - Board and Circuit Case Law (2016 Pennsylvania Bar Association, Immigration Law Forum), Emerging Issues with Humanitarian Relief (AILA Philadelphia Chapter 2016 CLE), and Success with U-Visa Applications (AILA Philadelphia Chapter 2012 CLE).. Chris is a proud member of the Philadelphia AILA Chapter, previously serving as the chapter’s Office of the Chief Counsel liaison co-chair (2015-2016), the chapter’s EOIR/Immigration Court liaison co-chair (2016-2018), and the chapter’s EOIR/Immigration Court liaison emeritus. Chris is on the Board of Directors of Justice for Our Neighbors, Delaware Valley (JFON-DV), a non-profit organization that offers free and low-cost immigration legal services to immigrants and their families, and serves as the Chair of JFON-DV’s Legal Operations Committee. Chris was previously an Adjunction Professor at Villanova University, Charles Widger School of Law in the Clinic for Asylum, Refugee & Emigrant Services (CARES).. Chris is licensed to practice law in:. He received his J.D. from Villanova University School of Law. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and daughter.

I am a member of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania as well as the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.

Charles F. Hollis, III (“Chuck”) was born in Covington, Kentucky. He is a graduate of Northern Kentucky University (B.A. History & Political Science, summa cum laude), the University of Cincinnati College of Law (J.D.), and the University of Helsinki Faculty of Law (LL.M. International Law) in Finland. He has also done coursework at the State Pushkin Institute for Russian Language, and Lomonosov Moscow State University.      Mr. Hollis has been practicing law for over 15 years. He is licensed in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana.. Mr. Hollis is the founding member of The Hollis Law Firm, LLC.  His practice focuses on a variety of fields, including: immigration, international law, trial and appellate practice, personal injury, and insurance law.. Mr. Hollis’ immigration practice covers a variety of matters, ranging from family and employment-related matters to asylum, naturalization and citizenship. He speaks Russian, has a working knowledge of French and German, and is now learning Polish. Mr. Hollis has assisted hundreds of clients from over 100 different countries with their immigration matters.  He has lectured both nationally and internationally on various topics in U.S. immigration law.. In 2010, Mr. Hollis was named a Rising Star in the field of Immigration Law in Ohio Super Lawyers Magazine.. Mr. Hollis is also a highly-experienced personal injury attorney, who understands how to successfully negotiate with insurance companies.  For the first fifteen years of his career, Mr. Hollis represented insurers such as Allstate in hundreds of personal injury cases.  He served as lead counsel in dozens of cases throughout southwestern Ohio and northern Kentucky, achieving favorable results in the vast majority of them.. Mr. Hollis is a past President of the Cincinnati USA Sister Cities Association. He serves on the Board of the Cincinnati-Kharkiv Sister City Partnership, and the Advisory Board for Soteni International, an organization performing charitable work in Kenya.. Mr. Hollis is a Russia scholar, having lived, worked and studied in Moscow on multiple occasions. His favorite pastimes include international travel, reading (especially world history and classic literature), tennis, photography and classical music. Mr. Hollis resides in suburban Cincinnati with his wife Angelika, who is a native of Poland, their son Ian and daughter Natalie.. Contact Mr. Hollis at, or by e-mail at

Soffan Law specialized in immigration law, criminal defense, personal injury and general litigation.. Attorney Soffan zealously advocates for her clients. She is fluent in arabic and has travelled to the Middle East several times.